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Show Oh, Lookit, Girls, Who's Here WS9 JJ 43 Walt McCredie New Bee Pilot WALTER M'CREDIE. M ' ' H I "1 ' w - t 1 HOW the appointment of Walter McCredie Mc-Credie as manager of their club will strike the baseball fans of Salt Lake Is a matter to be determined de-termined later. There -was a time when Salt Lake- didn't have much use for Walter, for it was he who predicted that Salt Lake would be such a "morning "morn-ing glory" as never was; that the town would be glad to get out of the Coast league within two years. It is true that Walter later took it back, and admitted that Salt Lake, so far from being a flivver, fliv-ver, was, indeed, the beet town In the circuit. j 1'iwcvcr the fans may reiard Me-I'rrilio Me-I'rrilio personally, there Is no question as to hi? ability as a baseball manager. He has delivered pennant after pennant for I'oi tlanil nnd only in the last few years h;is he fallen down. No doubt there was good i en son for that, since the Portland Port-land club had a dreadful time ma Icing both ends meet, and money for the purchase pur-chase of ball players was hard to get AlcCredle has always had a pood club, however. He has had battling nines every year, and in the season of 3 017 he had a club which, when playing in Salt Lake at any rate, seemed due for better thinps than finishing fourth. The engagement of McCredie probably should relieve the situation somewhat in respect to getting some ball players for next year. No doubt Walter can have the pick of the Portland players, with the result that Salt Lake and Dot Sacramento Sac-ramento will buy those players. Began as Pitcher. Walter McCredie was born in Manchester, Man-chester, Iowa, November 20. 1877. He , began playing ball when he was 17 years old as a pitcher on the Manchester team,-1 and during: the season of 1S95 he helped Manchester win a pennant. He was with the same club a part of the following season sea-son and In 1897 he was a member of the Cherokee, Iowa, club. Qnincy, 111., engaged en-gaged his services in and the next! year he was a member of the Youngs-town Youngs-town team. McCredie, during the early ' part of his career, played the infield as' well aa pitching. When he joiner! the Sioux City club of the old Western league in IflOO he was switched to the outfield on ' account of his hitting ability. He batted I ."L'i; for the Sioux City team and wafs : sold lo Minneapolis the following year, j He led the American association In bat- ! ting that season with the mark of .311-1. i When the Minneapolis team was shifted , to Louisville in TWJ. McCrrdie refused j to go and jumped to the Oakland uul- laws. He led the league in batting with j the percentage of ."42. Regular Fence Buster. In JOn:; he wa.s re i n s ta t c d and s i ir n e d to play with Ned Hanlon of the Brook -In Nationals. His batting mark in the majors was .326. He was tied with four other players for fourth position. lie was a member of the Baltimore team a part of the 1904 season and while with the Orioles lie batted .342. He finished the 1104 season with Portland and batted bat-ted .::oi. In Oecomber. David K. Ducrdaie, now wTH-r of the Seattle Northwestern league tea in. t ra nsfrred his Portland stock to t he Mci 'redies. and since that lime until yesterday Walter McCredie had been manager of the Beavers, lie played in the outfield for six seasons and then retired as an active player and has been directing his teams from the bench for the past seven seasons. His record as a player is: Year. Team. Position. B F 1 Mo Manehster. Ta. Pifeher J Manchster, In. Pit hr-r l.s:"'7 I'jierokee, Ja. P. -infield li' tjniney. K-inrieM 1 Younct'wn. P.-In field l: Sion 'i ty. I'm t field . . .P.? .... :U Minre-Hpohs 'iii field . . .:::m -pui' Oakh- nd.' i 'hi field . . .:i2 .... 1 ;(0.1 KrookU n. ' ui t'ild . . i . . ' 2 :'"M Pnlt imore, On r field . . . .... jii't Purthind, '"'f.-Mgr. . .an .fejri ir.V? p..rt 'and. - ff. -Mcr. . .i':: t .pip l!tv; Portland. (f.-.M-i . . X-1 1 :'H7 Portland. m'.-Mtr.. .;;ihi .re;ri liinx Pom :;ind. (:'.-Mlt. . . ; i." ,-,4 1!tnfiPnrtnnd. t 'l'.-.Mr.. .;'T'J .'.'4K ; 1 H 1 ft Portland. iX.-Mgr.. . 1! I 7 .PfiO K'U. lf!2, Ti::. 1 f-14, 11.".. Kb and j l'j 7. Iipii' ii tr-i ua pr. McCi'-Iio hi3 been unusually su-xesfi- ful In developing players for major league I service, and the payment received for those players has been a large factor in 1 helping Portland maintain a club in the. Coast league. Some of the men McCredie Mc-Credie "sent up"' are: Pitchers Kill P,ssick, Al Carson, Bobbv Groom, rene Krapp, Vean Gregg, Bill Steen, Tom Seaton, Dutch KlawUter, Speck Harkness, Bill James, Rip Hager-man, Hager-man, Stanley Coveleskie and Win Noyes. Catchers Larry McLean, Pat Donahue, Tom Madden, Walter Kuhn, Dan Howley and Gus P'lsher. Infielders Larrj' Schlafly, Babe Danzig, Dan-zig, Ivan Olson. Bill Sweeney, Roger Peckinpaugh, Ote Johnson, Bill Rodgers. Dave Bancroft, Art Kores, Charlie Hol-locher Hol-locher and Lyle Blgbee. Outfielders Mike Mitchell. Jimmy Mr-Hale, Mr-Hale, Bviddy Ryan, Billy Speas, Jack Graney- and Carson Blgbee. McCredie also put the polish on numerous numer-ous players sent him for the purpose by big league clubs, such as Allen Sothoron and many others. |